Speaking to reporters after a U.S. Olympic Committee board meeting in New York City on Friday, USOC Chief Executive Scott Blackmun said the statements “definitely got our attention.”

“I think there was just some miscommunication there,” he said.

In 1980, President Carter took the unusual move of ordering the Americans to boycott the Summer Olympics in Moscow. When asked about whether the government could prevent a U.S. team from competing now, Blackmun sounded less than certain.

“We’ll leave that to the constitutional lawyers,” he said. “We’re going to take a team to Pyeongchang unless it’s physically impossible or legally impossible.”

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